Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUMPHREYS, HENRY (fl. 1819-1824), harpist the son of Edward Humphreys. He lived at Welshpool at the beginning of the 19th century. He took second prize at the Carmarthen eisteddfod of 1819, whilst at the Brecon eisteddfod of 1822 and that held at Welshpool in 1824, he won the silver harps that were offered. He composed the air called ' Holl ieuenctyd Cymru ' which he published in 1824, with variations for the triple harp. He was family
HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648 - 1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist . Much against his inclination he was translated to Hereford in November 1701; there he died on 20 November 1712. In 1681, Humphreys married Elizabeth, daughter of bishop Robert Morgan of Henblas, Anglesey, a family of which bishop William Lloyd, one of the 'Seven Bishops,' was a distinguished member. Bishop Humphreys's episcopate was one of marked activity, and even after his translation to Hereford
HUMPHREYS, ROBERT (1779 - 1832), Wesleyan minister amalgamated circuits of Brecon and Llandilo (1821); Carmarthen (1822); Merthyr Tydfil (1825); Cardiff (1827); Llanidloes (1830); and Beaumaris (1832). He walked from Llanidloes to Beaumaris and, when he reached Bangor, was entreated not to go on to Beaumaris as cholera was raging there. He disregarded the warning and went there, sending his family to the country. He preached on Sunday and again on Monday
HUMPHREYS-OWEN, ARTHUR CHARLES (1836 - 1905), Member of Parliament Born at Garthmyl, Montgomeryshire, 9 November 1836, son of Erskine Humphreys, barrister; A. J. Johnes was his maternal uncle. In 1876, he inherited the estates of the Owen family of Glansevern (formerly of Cefn-hafodau), and took the name 'Humphreys-Owen.' From Harrow he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1860; he was called to the Bar in 1863. He took a prominent part in
HUW ap RHYS WYN (fl. c. 1550), poet Member of the landed family of Mysoglen, Llangeinwen, Anglesey; husband of Catherine, daughter of Lewys ab Owain ap Meurig of Y Frondeg, Llangaffo. Some of his poems survive in manuscripts, and these include a cywydd addressed to Thomas Glyn, Glynllifon, requesting a fishing boat from him, a cywydd to old age, and a more unusual kind of cywydd - an elegy on the death of his favourite hound
HUW BODWRDA (fl. 1566) Bodwrda,, gentleman, bard, and patron of bards Two cywyddau by him survive in which he engages in mock controversy with Ieuan (Ifan) Dylyniwr, harpist; he also wrote an englyn urging the bards who came to Bodwrda to write to the 'Worthyes' on the partition in the Tŷ Canol at Bodwrda. It is fairly certain that he kept a family bard and a family harpist at his home. From the elegy upon him, composed by Wiliam Llŷn it would appear that he was
HUWS, ALUN 'SBARDUN' (1948 - 2014), musician and composer Alun Huws was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, on 26 September 1948, the eldest son of Richard Wynne Hughes (1921-1989) and Catherine Anne Hughes (née Davies, 1920-1972). The family home was in Penrhyndeudraeth. His father worked at Cookes Explosives Ltd., part of the ICI Group, while his mother was a teacher. The couple had one other son, John Wyn Hughes. Alun changed the spelling of his surname to the
HUWS, RHYS JONES (1862 - 1917), Independent minister Born 13 June 1862 at Tal-y-wern Fach, Penegoes, near Machynlleth. His father was the superintendent of the lead-washings at the Dyfngwm and Dylife works; his mother hailed from the line of Eos Morlais (Robert Rees). The family went to live at Llechwedd-du, Dylife, and it was there, in the National school, that he received his early education. When he was about thirteen he embarked on his career
HUWS, WILLIAM PARI (1853 - 1936), Independent minister Born 27 September 1853 at Penrhyndeudraeth, son of Gwilym Prysor, a cultured poet and writer. The family moved to Dolwyddelan where he and his brothers, the Rev. G. Parry Hughes (Calvinistic Methodist) of Morfa Nefyn and the Rev. Rowland Hughes of Cardiff, were brought up. After leaving elementary school he worked for a time in the Blaenau Ffestiniog quarries, after which he went to Llanrwst
HYWEL ap DAFYDD ap IEUAN ap RHYS (fl. c. 1450-1480) Raglan, poet (Neath) and members of the Herbert family of Pembroke and Raglan. It appears from one of the two bardic controversies between him and Guto'r Glyn that he was family poet at Raglan. Other ymrysonau were composed between Bedo Brwynllys and Hywel, and also between Gruffudd ap Dafydd Fychan, Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Hywel. According to Edward Jones (apparently on the authority of Rhys Cain) he was an M.A
HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD ap IORWERTH (fl. c. 1300-1340) represented Anglesey in the Parliament of 1327, and in 1331 he accused William de Shaldeford, who had been deputy to Roger Mortimer (see article Mortimer family), justice of North Wales in 1327, of having encouraged Mortimer to encompass the death of Edward II in order to frustrate an attempt to rescue him by his Welsh adherents (Bulletin of Rylands Library, vol. 6, 35-6 and 43-9). The date of his death is
HYWEL BANGOR (fl. 1540), an itinerant bard written by Huw Bangor or Hugh ap William Bangor in 1537, but he may have been a member of the Bangor family, the pedigree of which is given by Lewis Dwnn (ii, 252).

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